Daniel Blaufuks

Daniel Blaufuks (Lisbon, 1963) is a Portuguese photographer, descendent of Polish and German Ashkenazi Jews who moved to Portugal in the late 1920's. He has worked for the weekly music newspaper Blitz, followed by the newspaper O Independente and, later, the Portuguese Marie Claire and amongst others. Daniel Blaufuks has also been published, with Paul Bowles, "My Tangier", and in 1994 the "London Diaries", followed by "Ein Tag in Mostar" (1995) and "Uma Viagem a S. Petersburgo" (1998). As well as producing many exhibitions, Daniel Blaufuks directed several films and videos: "Life is not a picnic" (1998, a film without a story), "Black and White" (2000, the story of a girl who becomes color-blind), "Under Strange Skies" (2002, a documentary on the Jewish refugees in Lisbon during and after the Second World War), "Reversed Landscapes" (2002, a film on Portuguese architecture), and "Slightly Smaller than Indiana" (2006, a documentary about contemporary Portugal).